It's being predicted that the company will continue to lose money until 2015. If that happens, then it would have taken Square around six years before it finally can turn a profit, given that it was founded in 2009.

Startup expert John Rampton said, "While that may seem like a lost cause--not to mention the stress of sticking with a company that is losing money--it's not uncommon for a company to wait years before making money. For example, even Tupperware wasn't exactly an overnight success."

After working at the manufacturing division for DuPont, Earl Tupper introduced his Tupperware "wonderbowl" in 1946. Despite advertising and a showroom on Fifth Avenue, Tupper wasn't faring very well financially. That all changed when Brownie Wise began hosting the Tupperware Home Party in 1948. By 1951, Tupper realized that the Tupperware Home Demonstration system was more effective financially than continuing to sell his product in stores. Tupper sold his company for a cool $16 million to the Rexall Drug Company in 1957. And the rest is history.

More recently, Blogger was started by Pyra Labs in August 1999 and experienced some success before the bubble burst. Evan Williams and Co. ran out of money and struggled to keep the service. In 2003, Google purchased Blogger and arguably saved it before things got any worse.

The moral of the story? It could take years before a company experiences revenue or gets acquired, if you're as fortunate as Blogger was. Here are five successful companies that also didn't make a dollar for almost five or more years.

FedEx

Frederick W. Smith first came up with an overnight-delivery company back in 1962 that he outlined in a paper while attending Yale University. Smith went on to become a successful businessman who took his personal wealth of $4 million, along with another $90 million from investors, to found his delivery company in 1971.

Then, by the end of the decade, Amazon wasn't as promising as it once seemed. Despite having revenues of $1.6 billion in 1999, Amazon still managed to lose $719 million. Things didn't get better in 2000, when it was found that Amazon had just around "$350 million of cash on hand," despite raising billions of dollars.

Jeff Bezos finally turned a profit in 2003, which was nine years after being founded and seven years after going public. Bezos was able to turn things around for Amazon by laying off one-seventh of Amazon's work force and closing some distribution centers.

In the decade following Amazon's first profit, there's still debate as to whether it actually makes money. For example, there was an article from NASDAQ in October 2013 that asked "Will Amazon Ever Make Money?" However, former Amazon employee and shareholder Eugene Wei argues that Amazon does make a profit on most items sold on the site and has a profitable model as well.

Turner Broadcasting System

Ted Turner definitely came a long way after purchasing his first TV station, UHF channel 17, in 1970. Within a decade, Turner purchased the Atlanta Hawks, the Atlanta Braves, and Superstation 17.

In 1979, Turner changed the name of his company from Turner Communications Group to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and launched the world's first all-news network--Cable News Network, or CNN. CNN premiered on June 1, 1980, with 1.7 million subscribers, which was enough to keep the channel afloat. In 1982, Turner launched CNN2 and merged with MGM Entertainment after a $1.5 billion deal in 1985, which gave Turner access to MGM's film vaults which created even more channels.

ESPN

A father-and-son team, Bill and Scott Rasmussen, teamed up with Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan to create an all-sports network in 1978. On September 7, 1979, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, the first-ever Sportscenter aired.

Tesla Motors

What a strange road Tesla Motors has been on. The idea was simple: to create the world's first electric sports car. Tesla was incorporated in June 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. One year later, Elon Musk invested in Silicon Valley's first automobile company and became chairman. In 2009, Tesla received a "$465 million USD loan from the United States Department of Energy" and went public the following year.